I have a customer that is using Broadcast intent with Datawedge in his application. He has ran into a specific issue. Please see below.

Well, ran into a problem. Discovered that a BroadcastReceiver is not allowed to do anything asynchronous such as a dialogue. After I received a scan I often have to send the scanned data e.g. UPC to the server to look it up and sometimes have to show a dialogue (Activity) asking a question or showing an error. I thought I'd be tricky and set a timer as I left the BroadcastReceiver and then catch it in my Activity, but as soon as I touch the UI e.g. set the EditText.Text it exits the timer code.

I'm the user and may have found my problem. I had forgot to use RunOnUiThread since the Timer is on a different thread. Seems to work now. But would appreciate any other solutions and/or input on the subject.